Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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